the few pieces translated to english by suely rolnik, the brazilian psychoanalyst/art critic/theorist with whom guattari wrote molecular revolution..., are pretty amazing as well.
The Three Ecologies has been one I've gone back to now and again for the past couple of years, as I have to
Soft Subversions. I just downloaded
Molecular Revolutions, and I'm just thirty pages in, but already I can say it's an absolute must-read if you're interested in Deleuze's work with Guattari. Where
Mille Plateaux is poetic and expansive and very difficult for some people without a theory/psychoanalysis background to comprehend, MR is very direct and the systematic in its (first-person) presentation of the Guattarian psychoanalytical model (one that's been co-opted piecemeal in the U.S., fwiw).
It also happens to refute almost every last bogus criticism I've seen of D&G in this thread and elsewhere in the blogosphere. Guattari explicitly talks about trying to formulate a notion of "
group desire" that isn't reliant on just triangulations like mommy-daddy-child, analyst-analysand-transference, etc. He also talks about how many phenomena Freud describes as integral to the Oedipal stage are simply based on cultural predilections/contingencies particular to his time, and need not be adhered to as if they are prescriptions for analysts. In fact, since there's no ethical imperative to keep society centered around incest taboos and "castration" anxiety, we should actively seek to change these so-called structural apparatuses, or recognize the ways in which they've already changed in our praxes.
There are valid criticisms to be made of both Deleuze and Guattari, and "D&G" for that matter, but it never ceases to amaze me how off-base most contemporary critics are with their attacks. It's as if they're reading a completely different text than I am when I hear their reactions to it. Sometimes I suspect it's willful misreading motivated by subterranean (unconscious, hehe) political forces.
